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Australian Paradox under fire: Health experts hit out at Sydney Uni sugar study

In The Australian Paradox, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller and Dr Alan Barclay claimed sugar intake had declined for the 30 years to 2010, while at the same time obesity and diabetes had tripled. The research has been cited 81 times by various academics

Analysing The Australian Paradox: experts speak out about the role of sugar in our diets

The Australian Paradox paper, whose authors are Sydney University's Professor Jennie Brand-Miller and Dr Alan Barclay, say sugar can't be to blame because over the past 30 years we've actually consumed less and less of it. . EMMA ALBERICI: Marion

Study questions reliability of glycemic index

A food that is low glycemic index for you one time you eat it could be high the next time, and it may have no impact on blood sugar for me.” “These criticisms of G.I. because of between-individual and within-individual variation in glucose response

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Low GI Diet for Gluten-free Cooking

Hachette UK.
2012.
ISBN: 9780733627972,0733627978.
272 pages.

The best-selling gluten-free recipe book, now available as an ebook. More than 200,000 Australians have coeliac disease, and many others with gluten intolerance or other conditions are discovering the benefits of switching to a gluten-free diet. Widely recognised as the most significant dietary finding of the last twenty-five years, the gylcemic index (GI) is an easy-to-understand measure of how foods affect blood glucose levels. Low-GI diets improve health and weight control, lower 'bad' cholesterol and help prevent or reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases. In LOW GI DIET FOR GLUTEN-FREE COOKING the best-selling Low GI Diet team explain clearly and simply how to combine the ground rules of a gluten-free diet with the lifelong health...

Low GI Diet Diabetes Handbook

Hachette UK.
2012.
ISBN: 9780733627828,073362782X.
576 pages.

For the first time, this bestselling handbook is available as an ebook. Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the world and is a contributing factor to the high rates of heart disease. It can also cause health problems related to blindness, kidney failure and amputation. In Australia and New Zealand diabetes and pre-diabetes affect 1 in 4 people. Every day nearly 300 adults and even children develop type 2 diabetes - and for every person diagnosed with diabetes there's someone with undiagnosed diabetes. The good news is that these days we know a lot more about managing diabetes and reducing your risk of developing it. THE DIABETES & PRE-DIABETES HANDBOOK cuts through the conflicting advice and sets out clearly and simply what you need to eat and do to help you: reduce your...

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The Glycemic Index in Diabetes Meal Planning

The subjects reported that the low-GI diet was easier to follow than the traditional diabetic diet. Obesity and being overweight are prevalent throughout the developed nations. Dr. Brand-Miller noted ... of the GI in diabetes meal planning.

23 Effective Ways To Fake Your Weight

"You'll eat fewer calories as it should displace the need to consume junk food like cookies, colas and chocolate," says Jennie Brand-Miller, co-author of The Low GI Diet. "Feed the hair, the skin, and confidence so you glow!" 2. Wear black, black ...

Low GI foods such as oats, lentils ... so it was completely individualised," he said. Commenting on the study, Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, director of the Sydney University Glycemic Index Research Service, said it was well known that individuals ...